The effect of a conviction becoming "spent" under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 is that the ex-offender must be treated "as a person who has not committed or been charged with or prosecuted for or convicted of or sentenced for the offence or offences which were the subject of that conviction". There are exceptions to this, but they are not material.

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